Re: First experience with F18-ALPHA-TC1 (virt-install help)

[Brian C. Lane]

On Mon, Aug 27, 2012 at 12:15:56PM -0400, Scott Poore wrote:
>  
>  
>  ----- Original Message -----
>  > From: "Brian C. Lane" <bcl(a)redhat.com&gt;
>  ...
>  > You can kickstart from a network source with just --cdrom, but if you
>  > want to use a local kickstart file you need to use --location and
>  > --cdrom so that anaconda can find stage2.
>  
>  I get an error (and have for as long as I can remember) when I try using --cdrom and
> --location together:
>  ...
>  ERROR    Only one install method can be used (--location URL, --cdrom CD/ISO, --pxe,
> --import, --boot hd|cdrom|...)
>  ...
>  
>  Or, are you talking about using --disk path=/path/to/iso,device=cdrom?  That seemed to
> work for me but, I'm not entirely sure that it actually booted from the iso.  Is there
> a way to tell? 
Whoops, yes, sorry about that. It doesn't boot from the iso, it still
boots from the --location, but it makes the iso available to me mounted.

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